How many courses within 30 min ride from new areas
 

My husband and I will be moving next year and are looking at the new areas for a courtyard villa. Wondering how many executive courses are within a 30-45 min golf cart ride of the new areas (Newell, DeLuna and beyond).

If you download the FREE Villages app (Green background and large White V), you can get an idea of the typical golf cart path and timing to golf courses. There are some maps on the villages website that should also give you an idea of what is nearby. I live near the current center of the villages, and can get to most golf courses in less than 45 minutes, by golf cart (at 20 MPH).

I think you have to be there in order to use the app that way. Unless I'm doing it wrong, which is definitely possible, it starts at your CURRENT location and mine is Illinois.

I live in Hawkins. Using your parameters, 25 courses within 30 minutes and 5 additional if using 45 minutes.

Suggest you go to the Golf The Villages web site (golfthevillages dot com in case the web adddress doesn't display) and click on either the Executive or Championship links in the menu. You can then download a map of all the courses in The Villages and be able to tell which ones are close to where you are at. And remember, there are a lot of new courses being built right now in the area south of the turnpike, so that list will continue to grow.

There are none within 30 minutes. There are several within 45 minutes including Sweetgum, Palmetto, Mangrove, Loblolly, Longleaf, and Lowlands. You will probably spend more time traveling to and from than playing golf.

The good news is that they are building the turnpike bridge which will make it faster to get to Loblolly, Longleaf, and Lowlands. Now you have to drive to Water Lily bridge and then come back down.

They are also building courses on the Eastport side of the turnpike so things should be better in 2024 and beyond.

This is a map.

You will be living in the extreme SE corner.


https://www.golfthevillages.com/imag...gesgolfmap.pdf

Well now.

Not enough

Hmmmmm…..definitely conflicting responses! I’ve played every Exec south of and including Pelican/Heron. I know my driving times are accurate from Hawkins and I would think similar from Deluna. Newell will add about 15 to 20 minutes to my times.

No one is mentioning the new courses that will be open in the next 6 to 12 months.
Plus the opening of the new turnpike bridge.

OP - honestly, if you are going new construction, no idea where you will be buying in 6 to 12 months either.

I put it in the Villages app and used their numbers. There are no executives within 30 minutes of Newell - and Dabney and Denham are even farther south. The only courses within 30 minutes are the two pitch and putts - Mickylee and Richmond.

SOuther Oaks is within 30 minutes

When the new bridge opens, at least loblolly and longleaf will be reasonable.

Don’t trust the app estimated times. Actual is always less than estimate. My time to Brownwood is 12 to 15 minutes less than the app estimate.

By then everything from from Lake Sumter south, plus five or six very close new under construction.

So 25-30 sounds about right.